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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Chile quake looms over Clinton Latin America tour AFP - Sunday, February 28 Send IM Story Print US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is due to leave Sunday for a tour of Latin America that is for now overshadowed by a massive earthquake in Chile, one of the five countries on her itinerary. WASHINGTON (AFP) - – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is due to leave Sunday for a tour of Latin America that is for now overshadowed by a massive earthquake in Chile, one of the five countries on her itinerary. Analysts said Clinton's trip is designed to revive the strong hopes President Barack Obama's administration had initially raised in the region, but it was not immediately clear how much the quake would affect her tour. Clinton spokesman Philip Crowley told AFP there was "no change at the moment" for her visit Tuesday to Santiago where she is to meet Chile's outgoing President Michelle Bachelet and president-elect Sebastian Pinera. But he said officials would reassess the situation on Monday when the chief US diplomat is in Uruguay. Related article:World pledges aid to Chile The quake, which Chilean authorities said has killed at least 300 people, comes six weeks after a massive temblor flattened the Haitian capital of Port au Prince and forced Clinton to call off an Asian tour when she was in Hawaii. On January 17, she made a brief visit to Port-au-Prince airport to consult with Haitian President Rene Preval, five days after the quake struck and killed more than 200,000 people in the impoverished Caribbean country. Relief and reconstruction in Haiti were also on the agenda for Clinton's tour -- that is also to take her to Brazil, Costa Rica and Guatamala -- as Latin American countries list help for Haiti as a regional priority. Clinton is due in Montevideo on Monday for Uruguay's presidential inauguration of former leftist rebel Jose Mujica, an event analyst Michael Shifter said can be used to reinforce US support for democracy in the region. Uruguay typifies a trend in which the region wants to show independence, but not belligerance toward the United States, according to Shifter, a leading analyst at the Inter-American Dialogue think tank. Anti-US Venezuela is one of a few key exceptions. Clinton will use the inauguration to show that the United States, which long looked at the region as its backyard, accepts the new political realities and will work with both governments of the left and right. "She is picking up almost where Obama left off almost a year ago with the summit of the Americas, which was very promising and which raised expectations and then things got bogged down and sidetracked," Shifter said. The Obama administration has faced criticism from various quarters over its response to the quake in Haiti, handling of events after last year's coup in Honduras, and the pace of its bid to engage diplomatically with communist Cuba. It has also been criticized for a military base agreement with Colombia, its push for anti-nuclear sanctions against Iran -- which has made inroads in Latin America -- and its slowness in naming key diplomats to the region. Shifter said "this was not a smooth take-off for re-engageing with Latin America," which had taken a dim viev of the counter-terrorism policies of the previous Bush administration. "She is confronting a region where there is a lot of good will and openess and interest in dealing with the United States but perhaps a little more skepticism and realism than there was a year ago," he told AFP. On Wednesday, Clinton will meet with Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Foreign Minister Celso Amorim in Brasilia, where she will raise US concerns about Iran's nuclear program. Brazil, a member of the 15-member UN Security Council, has friendly ties with Iran, and hosted a visit by Ahmadinejad last year. Lula is to travel to Iran in May. Clinton will on Thursday visit Costa Rica where she will be the keynote speaker at the Pathways to Prosperity in the Americas ministerial meeting. The secretary is also to meet separately with Costa Rican President Oscar Arias and President-elect Laura Chinchilla. Clinton will make her last stop in Guatemala on Friday 5 for talks with President Alvaro Colom, as well as for a meeting with leaders of Central American countries and the Dominican Republic. 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